"will never forget Paul's gesture of care and concern in coming to see us."" The song's original title was ""Hey Jules"", and it was intended to comfort Julian Lennon from the stress of his parents' separation. McCartney later said, ""I knew it was not going to be easy for him"", and that he changed the name to ""Jude"" ""because I thought that sounded a bit better"". According to music journalist Chris Hunt, in the weeks after writing the song, McCartney ""test[ed] his latest composition on anyone too polite to refuse. And that meant ""everyone""."" On 30 June, after recording the"
"Hey Jude ""Hey Jude"" is a song by English rock band the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The ballad evolved from ""Hey Jules"", a song McCartney wrote to comfort John Lennon's son, Julian, during his parents' divorce. ""Hey Jude"" begins with a verse-bridge structure incorporating McCartney's vocal performance and piano accompaniment; further instrumentation is added as the song progresses. After the fourth verse, the song shifts to a fade-out coda that lasts for more than four minutes. ""Hey Jude"" was released in August 1968 as the first single from the Beatles' record label Apple Records. More"
"a rendition of ""Hey Jude"" while watching cycling at the velodrome. Hey Jude ""Hey Jude"" is a song by English rock band the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The ballad evolved from ""Hey Jules"", a song McCartney wrote to comfort John Lennon's son, Julian, during his parents' divorce. ""Hey Jude"" begins with a verse-bridge structure incorporating McCartney's vocal performance and piano accompaniment; further instrumentation is added as the song progresses. After the fourth verse, the song shifts to a fade-out coda that lasts for more than four minutes. ""Hey Jude"" was released in August 1968 as"
"Paul McCartney visited her to offer his support. On the journey to Kenwood he composed the song ""Hey Jude"", which eventually became The Beatles' biggest selling single. Lennon and Ono, meanwhile, were without a permanent address for a time. They stayed with McCartney at his house in Cavendish Avenue (where it is alleged that a further breach occurred in the Lennon–McCartney relationship when Lennon discovered a derogatory note written by McCartney) and with Peter Brown and then Neil Aspinall, before moving into an apartment leased by Starr at 34 Montagu Square, Marylebone in London. They were evicted from this flat"
"accused her of having an affair in India, saying she was no ""innocent little flower"". McCartney visited her and Julian that year, and on the way to Kenwood he composed a song in his head which later became ""Hey Jude"". Talking about their divorce, McCartney later said: ""We'd been very good friends for millions of years and I thought it was a bit much for them suddenly to be ""personae non gratae"" and out of my life"". Cynthia recalled, ""I was truly surprised when, one afternoon, Paul arrived on his own. I was touched by his obvious concern for our"
"number one. ""Hey Jude"" is the best-selling Beatles single, achieving sales of over five million copies soon after its release. In July 2005, McCartney's performance of ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" with U2 at Live 8 became the fastest-released single in history. Available within forty-five minutes of its recording, hours later it had achieved number one on the UK Official Download Chart. He was appointed Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to music. Paul McCartney Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist,"
"again, as the press officer for their newly created Apple Corps. Taylor oversaw the public launch of the company's record label, Apple Records, in August 1968, marked by the release of the Beatles' single ""Hey Jude"". As part of the campaign, ""Hey Jude"" and three other Apple singles were compiled in a gift box and despatched to Queen Elizabeth II, the Queen Mother and the British prime minister. During this period, Taylor frequently clashed with Paul McCartney, about whom he later wrote: ""I don't think I ever hated anyone as much as I hated Paul in the summer of 1968."""
"for a record label ever, selling an estimated eight million copies worldwide and topping the charts in eleven countries. In 1999, it was certified 4x platinum by the RIAA, representing four million units shipped in the US. Two years after its initial single release, ""Hey Jude"" and its ""Revolution"" B-side would make their LP debuts on a compilation album also called ""Hey Jude"". A failed early promotional attempt for the single took place after the Beatles' all-night recording session on 7–8 August 1968. With Apple Boutique having closed a week before, McCartney and his girlfriend, Francie Schwartz, painted ""Hey Jude/Revolution"""
"stepsister, Kyoko Chan Cox. Paul McCartney wrote ""Hey Jude"" to console him over the divorce; originally called ""Hey Jules"", McCartney changed the name because he thought that ""Jude"" was an easier name to sing. After his parents' divorce, Julian had almost no contact with his father until the early 1970s when, at the request of his father's then short-term girlfriend, May Pang (Yoko Ono and Lennon had temporarily separated), he began to visit his father regularly. John Lennon bought him a Gibson Les Paul guitar and a drum machine for Christmas 1973, and encouraged his interest in music by showing"
"Cynthia Lennon separated after John's affair with Yoko Ono. The following month, Paul McCartney drove out to visit Cynthia and John's son, Julian, at Kenwood, the family's home in Weybridge. Cynthia had been part of the Beatles' social circle since before the band's rise to fame in 1963; McCartney later said he found it ""a bit much for them suddenly to be ""personae non gratae"" and out of my life."" Cynthia Lennon recalled of McCartney's surprise visit: ""I was touched by his obvious concern for our welfare ... On the journey down he composed 'Hey Jude' in the car. I"
"derived from the initials LSD, Lennon insisted, ""It's not an acid song."" McCartney corroborated Lennon's explanation that Julian innocently came up with the name. Lennon was distant from Julian, who felt closer to McCartney than to his father. During a car journey to visit Cynthia and Julian during Lennon's divorce, McCartney composed a song, ""Hey Jules"", to comfort him. It would evolve into the Beatles song ""Hey Jude"". Lennon later said, ""That's his best song. It started off as a song about my son Julian ... he turned it into 'Hey Jude'. I always thought it was about me and"
"for Julian, John Lennon thought it had actually been written for him. In a 1980 interview, Lennon stated that he ""always heard it as a song to me"" and contended that, on one level, McCartney was giving his blessing to Lennon and Ono's relationship, while, on another, he was disappointed to be usurped as Lennon's friend and songwriting partner. Other people believed McCartney wrote the song about them, including Judith Simons, a journalist with the ""Daily Express"". Still others, including Lennon, have speculated that in the lyrics to ""Hey Jude"", McCartney's failing long-term relationship with Jane Asher provided an unconscious"
"lyrics were collected by Evans as a part of his duties, and therefore belonged to The Beatles, collectively. A 2004 report of the discovery of a further collection of Evans's Beatles' memorabilia proved to be false. A notebook in which McCartney wrote the lyrics for ""Hey Jude"" was sold in 1998, for £111,500. The notebook also contains lyrics for ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" and ""All You Need Is Love"". It also contained lyrics, notes, drawings and poems by Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr, as well as by Evans. A one-man play about Evans was performed at the Cavern"
"reviewer contrasted ""Hey Jude"" with its B-side, ""Revolution"", saying that ""The other side of the new disk urges activism of a different sort"", due to McCartney ""liltingly exhort[ing] a friend to overcome his fears and commit himself in love"". ""Rolling Stone"" also attributed the song's meaning as a message from McCartney to Lennon to end his negative relationships with women: ""to break the old pattern; to really go through with love"". Other commentators interpreted ""Hey Jude"" as being directed at Bob Dylan, then semi-retired in Woodstock. Writing in 1971, Robert Christgau of ""The Village Voice"" called it ""one of [McCartney's]"
"ends of bridges"", since ""The flat seventh that posed dominant turns into bridges now has an entire chord built on it."" This three-chord refrain allows McCartney ""a bedding ... to leap about on vocally"", so he ad-libs his vocal performance for the rest of the song. In Riley's estimation, the song ""becomes a tour of Paul's vocal range: from the graceful inviting tones of the opening verse, through the mounting excitement of the song itself, to the surging raves of the coda"". ""Hey Jude"" was released on 26 August 1968 in the United States and 30 August in the United"
"by bringing an advance copy of the two songs from the UK to America and playing them to a few trusted radio station managers, who were unanimous in their decision that “Hey Jude” was the hit. They were right. When the song was released in September 1968, it topped the ""Billboard"" charts for nine weeks and became the Beatles' best selling single of all time. In his position as an Apple executive and personal liaison for the Beatles between the UK and US, Mansfield was among a handful of eyewitnesses to join The Beatles as they performed their legendary last-ever"
"of the year, and the song also won the 1968 Ivor Novello Award for ""A-Side With the Highest Sales"". In 2001, ""Hey Jude"" was inducted into the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2004, ""Rolling Stone"" ranked ""Hey Jude"" at number eight on the ""500 Greatest Songs of All Time"", making it the highest-placed Beatles song on the list. Among its many appearances in other best-song-of-all-time lists, VH1 placed it seventh in 2000 and ""Mojo"" ranked it at number 29 in the same year, having placed the song seventh in a 1997 list of"
"Hey Jude (Wilson Pickett album) Hey Jude is the ninth studio album by soul singer Wilson Pickett, recorded at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama and released in 1969. The title track, a cover of The Beatles song of the same name, was a success, peaking at #13 on the Billboard R&B singles chart and #23 on the top 200. Also released as a single was a cover of Steppenwolf's ""Born to Be Wild"", which was less successful. The album is particularly noteworthy for the early appearance of guitarist Duane Allman, later founder of The Allman Brothers Band, who made"
"""the track is the only one by a UK writer to have been aired more than seven million times on American TV and radio and is third in the all-time list ... [and] is the most played song by a British writer [last] century in the US"". His 1968 Beatles composition ""Hey Jude"" achieved the highest sales in the UK that year and topped the US charts for nine weeks, which is longer than any other Beatles single. It was also the longest single released by the band and, at seven minutes eleven seconds, was at that time the longest"
"day in the studio, McCartney ""gave us a full concert rendition of 'Hey Jude'"". When introducing the composition to Lennon, McCartney assured him that he would ""fix"" the line ""the movement you need is on your shoulder"", reasoning that ""it's a stupid expression; it sounds like a parrot."" Lennon replied: ""You won't, you know. That's the best line in the song."" McCartney retained the phrase; he later said of his subsequent live performances of the song: ""that's the line when I think of John, and sometimes I get a little emotional during that moment."" Although McCartney originally wrote ""Hey Jude"""
"Hey Jude (Beatles album) Hey Jude (original title: The Beatles Again) is a 1970 collection of non-album singles and B-sides by the Beatles. It included ""I Should Have Known Better"" and ""Can't Buy Me Love"", two singles released by Capitol Records whose only previous American album appearance had been on the ""A Hard Day's Night"" soundtrack album, which had been released by United Artists Records. The ""Hey Jude"" LP had been out of print since the late 1980s, although it remained available on cassette during the 1990s. The album was issued on CD for the first time in 2014, as"
"three of the Beatles performing ""Hey Jude"", as George Harrison remained in the studio control room, with Martin and EMI recording engineer Ken Scott. Author Simon Leng views this as indicative of how Harrison was increasingly allowed little room to develop ideas on McCartney compositions, whereas he was free to create empathetic guitar parts for Lennon's songs of the period. During the rehearsals that day, Harrison and McCartney had a heated disagreement over the lead guitar part for the song. Harrison's idea was to play a guitar phrase as a response to each line of the vocal, which did not"
"truest and most forthright love songs"" and was critical of its omission from the album ""The Beatles"". In their 1975 book """", critics Roy Carr and Tony Tyler wrote that ""Hey Jude"" ""promised great things"" for the ill-conceived Apple enterprise and described the song as ""the last great Beatles single recorded ""specifically"" for the 45s market"". They noted also that ""the epic proportions of the piece"" encouraged many imitators, yet these other artists ""[failed] to capture the gentleness and sympathy of the Beatles' communal feel"". Among more recent commentators, Alan Pollack admires ""Hey Jude"" as ""such a good illustration of"
"3,264,398 copies by the end of the decade. Hey Jude (Beatles album) Hey Jude (original title: The Beatles Again) is a 1970 collection of non-album singles and B-sides by the Beatles. It included ""I Should Have Known Better"" and ""Can't Buy Me Love"", two singles released by Capitol Records whose only previous American album appearance had been on the ""A Hard Day's Night"" soundtrack album, which had been released by United Artists Records. The ""Hey Jude"" LP had been out of print since the late 1980s, although it remained available on cassette during the 1990s. The album was issued on"
"Here Today (Paul McCartney song) ""Here Today"" is a song by Paul McCartney from his 1982 album ""Tug of War"". McCartney wrote the song about his relationship with and love for John Lennon, who had been murdered less than two years before. He stated the song was composed in the form of an imaginary conversation the pair might have had. The song was produced by The Beatles' producer George Martin. Although not released as a single, the song reached #46 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock charts. When the song was written Lennon had not yet been dead for a year."
"was worthy of an A-side, ""but we could have had both."" In 1980, he told ""Playboy"" he still disagreed with the decision. The single was a highly successful debut for Apple Records, and contrasted with the public embarrassment the band faced after the recent closure of their short-lived retail venture, Apple Boutique. ""Hey Jude"" began its sixteen-week run on Britain's official singles chart on 7 September 1968, claiming the top spot a week later. It lasted two weeks on top before being replaced by Hopkin's ""Those Were the Days"", which was produced by McCartney. ""Hey Jude"" was certified gold by"
"you. It still touches me."" ""Hey Jude"" was one of the few Beatles songs that Elvis Presley covered, when he rehearsed the track at his 1969 Memphis sessions with producer Chips Moman, a recording that appeared on the 1972 album ""Elvis Now"". A medley of the Beatles' ""Yesterday"" and ""Hey Jude"" was included on the 1999 reissue of Presley's 1970 live album ""On Stage"". In 1968, R&B singer Wilson Pickett released a cover recorded at Muscle Shoals, with guitar from a young Duane Allman, who recommended the choice to Pickett. Eric Clapton commented, ""I remember hearing [it] and calling either"
"Allman's performance on this album as the beginning of Southern Rock. Hey Jude (Wilson Pickett album) Hey Jude is the ninth studio album by soul singer Wilson Pickett, recorded at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama and released in 1969. The title track, a cover of The Beatles song of the same name, was a success, peaking at #13 on the Billboard R&B singles chart and #23 on the top 200. Also released as a single was a cover of Steppenwolf's ""Born to Be Wild"", which was less successful. The album is particularly noteworthy for the early appearance of guitarist"
"for his son Julian, and he specifically wanted Starr to sing it. The early takes featured just Lennon on acoustic guitar and Starr singing. Martin scored an orchestral and choral arrangement that replaced the guitar in the final mix, and also played the celesta. ""Hey Jude"" was recorded at the end of July 1968 during the sessions for ""The Beatles"" but was issued separately as a single nearly three months before the album's release. (It would, however, make its LP debut in the US two years later as the title cut of the compilation album ""Hey Jude"".) The B-side, ""Revolution"","
"artist. He wrote and recorded a single, ""Saint Paul"", which may have contributed to the ""Paul is dead"" hoax that erupted late in the year. The cryptic lyrics of the song are generally thought to allude to Knight's failed relationship with McCartney and his apparent belief that the Beatles would soon break up. The lyrics do not refer to death but were interpreted by some fans as containing clues. The ending repeats the phrase ""hey Paul"" in an arrangement that sounds similar to the Beatles' song ""Hey Jude"". There are two versions, both in stereo. The full five-minute version contains"
"In mid-1968, Trident Studios were among the first in the UK to use Dolby noise reduction, and employ an eight-track reel to reel recording deck. While Abbey Road Studios still only used four-track at the time, Trident's Ampex eight-track machine drew The Beatles on 31 July 1968 to record their single ""Hey Jude"". Paul McCartney later said about recording the track at Trident: ""Words cannot describe the pleasure of listening back to the final mix of 'Hey Jude' on four giant Tannoy speakers which dwarfed everything else in the room ..."" The White Album tracks ""Dear Prudence"", ""Honey Pie"", ""Savoy"
"very well on the royalties, buying a home in Pollensa, Mallorca, a Porsche Spyder and a sail boat. Hopkin's recording was produced by Paul McCartney with an arrangement by Richard Hewson (per the label of the record) and became a number-one hit on the UK Singles Chart. In the United States, Hopkin's recording reached number two on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 (held out of the top spot for three weeks by ""Hey Jude"" by the Beatles) and topped the Billboard Easy Listening charts for six weeks. In the Netherlands, it topped the charts for two consecutive weeks. The Russian origin"
"will find this a good introduction to the rich catalog of one of the most hardworking and consistently innovative songwriters in the hard-rockin' folk section."" All songs written by Peter Case unless otherwise noted. Production Thank You St. Jude Thank You St. Jude is an album by American singer-songwriter Peter Case, released in 2001. The album consists of rearranged acoustic versions of songs previously recorded by Case or favorites from his live concerts. Music critic Denise Sullivan of Allmusic praised the album, writing ""This disc is an essential part of the Case catalog – a document of the state of"